“I do not think one should chase the fashions of the day, concerning neither sweaters nor opinions.”

“I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses… 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.”

“Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.”

“In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.”

“When we consider a human work, we believe we know where the "intelligence" which fashioned it comes from; but when a living being is concerned, no one knows or ever knew, neither Darwin nor Epicurus, neither Leibniz nor Aristotle, neither Einstein nor Parmenides. An act of faith is necessary to make us adopt one hypothesis rather than another. Science, which does not accept any credo, or in any case should not, acknowledges its ignorance, its inability to solve this problem which, we are certain, exists and has reality.”

“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.”

“I think male Prime Ministers one day will come back into fashion!”

“There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?”

“No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.”

“People say that there are neither dragons to be killed nor distressed maidens to be rescued nowadays. I do not know, but I think I have dropped across one or two, nor do I feel sure whether the most mortal wounds have been inflicted by the dragons or by myself.”